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pith:MWCIRURI

pith:2016:MWCIRURIDDXJC5UD2WWUW6KOPF

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Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic k-TSP

Alina Ene, Rishi Saket, Viswanath Nagarajan

arxiv:1610.01058 v1 · 2016-10-04 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MWCIRURIDDXJC5UD2WWUW6KOPF}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:12.515856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

658488d22818ee917683d5ad4b794e79479f8731400fcc6a1d4e803d35365a8d

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.01058 · arxiv_version: 1610.01058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.01058 · pith_short_12: MWCIRURIDDXJ · pith_short_16: MWCIRURIDDXJC5UD · pith_short_8: MWCIRURI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MWCIRURIDDXJC5UD2WWUW6KOPF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 658488d22818ee917683d5ad4b794e79479f8731400fcc6a1d4e803d35365a8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "607f0f656d298f703546b2b19fcb06527ed47eb6f1d0f3b9631492c046a57c6f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-04T15:57:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12b00721bdfcf8b4f88bd70fc20b64d501443fe6213796354d009a66163c3736"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.01058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}